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talk about chuck hagel. he gave a really poor performance at his confirmation hearing last week. both sides can pretty much agree with that. that's coming from folks like leon panetta. leon panetta actually defending him yesterday. let's take a listen to him. >> it's pretty obvious that the political knives were out for chuck hagel. what disappointed me is that they talked a lot about past quotes but what about what a secretary of defense is confronting today? what about the war in afghanistan? what about the war on terrorism? what about the budget sequester? >> ruth, what do you think, does panetta have a point there? >> i think he totally has a point. i think that the thing that was striking about the hague will confirmation hearing was the really poor performance on both sides. yes, the nominee did a terrible job answering entirely predictable questions and handling those, but also, the senators did a predictable but also very poor job of probing seriously his views, not just what he said in the past, but his views on the various things that will face the secretary of defense
talk about chuck hagel. he gave a really poor performance at his confirmation hearing last week. both sides can pretty much agree with that. that's coming from folks like leon panetta. leon panetta actually defending him yesterday. let's take a listen to him. >> it's pretty obvious that the political knives were out for chuck hagel. what disappointed me is that they talked a lot about past quotes but what about what a secretary of defense is confronting today? what about the war in...
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when the votes for chuck hagel were tallied in the senate, democrats were essentially just one short. republican senators pat cochran, susan collins, johanns and murkowski sided with the president. >> the notion that we would see an unprecedented filibuster, just about unprecedented -- we've never had a secretary of defense filibustered before. they seem to think that the rule now is that you have to have 60 votes for everything. well, that's not the rule. >> senate majority harry reid suggested it's pure politics. >> i guess to be able to run for the senate as a republican in most places of the country, you need to have a resume that says, i help filibuster one of president's nominees. maybe that helps. maybe that keeps the tea party guy from running against you. but this should not be politics. >> senator john mccain's response to politics, you played politics, too. >> in 1989 they filibustered or basically stopped him from coming to the floor of the senate. we didn't have a secretary of defense for three months. it didn't seem to bother harry reid or carl levin at the time. >> i wa
when the votes for chuck hagel were tallied in the senate, democrats were essentially just one short. republican senators pat cochran, susan collins, johanns and murkowski sided with the president. >> the notion that we would see an unprecedented filibuster, just about unprecedented -- we've never had a secretary of defense filibustered before. they seem to think that the rule now is that you have to have 60 votes for everything. well, that's not the rule. >> senate majority harry...
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coming up our agenda next hour, the hold on chuck hagel. senator harry reid blasting republicans. we're going to ask republican senator john barrasso what republicans hope to gain from this. >>> and the nra fire brand touching off another fire storm with an op-ed tinged with racially insensitive language. >>> plus, the superstar athlete that everyone called the blade runner at the olympics taken into custody after his girlfriend was found dead in his home. the olympian appearing in court. we're going to bring you the very latest coming up. ♪ they hatin' ♪ patrolling they tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty ♪ ♪ tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty ♪ ♪ tryin' to -- [ woman ] hi there. why do we always have to take your mom's car? [ male announcer ] the security of an iihs top safety pick, the 2013 volkswagen tiguan. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease a 2013 tiguan for $219 a month. ♪ [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing
coming up our agenda next hour, the hold on chuck hagel. senator harry reid blasting republicans. we're going to ask republican senator john barrasso what republicans hope to gain from this. >>> and the nra fire brand touching off another fire storm with an op-ed tinged with racially insensitive language. >>> plus, the superstar athlete that everyone called the blade runner at the olympics taken into custody after his girlfriend was found dead in his home. the olympian...
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that's encouraging if you're chuck hagel in the white house. but i would argue that the most critical meeting chuck hagel will have in the coming days is chuck schumer. he has to be able to answer the questions of the new york senator because he can bring along as many as ten democrats. i was counting last week his statement was coming out after the nomination was announced. notably, the junior senator from new york who takes a lot of cues from chuck schumer. several other senators who are beholden to schumer for helping them get elected in 2006-2008. if the most prominent jewish senator on the democratic side of is there, it could be very difficult for him to get an easy confirmation vote. >> ed o'keefe, michael, thank you. >> thank you. >>> just a reminder, we will have the press conference live here on msnbc that is coming up in about an hour, 11:15. >>> big night for the golden glo glob glob globes for politics. dab el day-lewis won best actor for "lincoln," jessica best actress for "zero dark thirty" and "game change" won three, including
that's encouraging if you're chuck hagel in the white house. but i would argue that the most critical meeting chuck hagel will have in the coming days is chuck schumer. he has to be able to answer the questions of the new york senator because he can bring along as many as ten democrats. i was counting last week his statement was coming out after the nomination was announced. notably, the junior senator from new york who takes a lot of cues from chuck schumer. several other senators who are...
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. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel is headed over to dover air force base to meet with some of those families as the house gets ready to pass a bill that would restore those benefits today. >>> meantime at the grand canyon, 2,000 workers are stranded without food or money to leave. the "arizona daily sun" says food banks and resort officials are trying to help out there. >>> in north carolina, there's no money left for wic benefits. those vouchers go to low income breast-feeding women, their infants and children. >>> the cdc staff is having to come back to deal with a s salmonella outbreak but are not getting paid. >>> alaska fishermen can't drop their traps into the water. we're talking about tens of millions of dollars at stake. family incomes on the line. and the atf not issuing permits for new breweries, recipes or labels and that is taking a toll on the small business craft beer industry. those are just some companies. let's bring in matt welch, bob herbert is a distinguished senior fellow. good to see you both. hi. a lot of outrage from congress over these death benefits. let m
. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel is headed over to dover air force base to meet with some of those families as the house gets ready to pass a bill that would restore those benefits today. >>> meantime at the grand canyon, 2,000 workers are stranded without food or money to leave. the "arizona daily sun" says food banks and resort officials are trying to help out there. >>> in north carolina, there's no money left for wic benefits. those vouchers go to low...
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chuck hagel says washington is taking the threat seriously. >> they have ratcheted up their dangerous rhetoric. some of the actions they have taken the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests certainly of our allies. >> joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to morocco and middle east adviser, mark ginsburg. good to see you. >> a dangerous amateur hour in pyongyang. how dangerous do you assess this to be? >> it's very dangerous. in all the confrontations that occurred with the kim dynasty in north korea, i don't believe we have ever seen this coming out of north korea on the verge of an effect of provoking a confrontation with south korea and the united states. as i wrote in the article, i was in china the last two weeks. they reached a point where they, themselves are distancing themselves from north korea. i take this seriously. i think the biggest danger here, chris, is that kim jong un backed himself into a dangerous corner. >> let's get more insight into this. like his father kim jong-il and his grandfather, a regime under stress and duress is t
chuck hagel says washington is taking the threat seriously. >> they have ratcheted up their dangerous rhetoric. some of the actions they have taken the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests certainly of our allies. >> joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to morocco and middle east adviser, mark ginsburg. good to see you. >> a dangerous amateur hour in pyongyang. how dangerous do you assess this to be? >> it's very dangerous. in all...
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defense secretary secretary chuck hagel's nomination was in the senate a record 35 days more than three times the previous average of the secretary of defense. >> remember, mr. president, our country was at war. republicans have blocked executive nominees not because they object to the qualifications, but because they seek to undermine the very government of which they were elected to serve. take richard cadre to lead the financial protection bureau. there was no doubt about his ability to do the job, but the consumer financial protection bureau, the brain child of elizabeth warren went for more than two years without a leader because republicans refused to accept the law of the land because they wanted to roll back a law that protects consumers from the greed of wall street. so i say to my republican colleague, you don't have to like the laws of the land, but you do have to respect those laws and acknowledge them and abide by them. similar obstruction continued unabated for seven more months until democrats threatened to change senate rules to allow up or down votes on executive nomina
defense secretary secretary chuck hagel's nomination was in the senate a record 35 days more than three times the previous average of the secretary of defense. >> remember, mr. president, our country was at war. republicans have blocked executive nominees not because they object to the qualifications, but because they seek to undermine the very government of which they were elected to serve. take richard cadre to lead the financial protection bureau. there was no doubt about his ability...
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that is something that the pentagon does not support, defense secretary chuck hagel, other top officials suggested to make the change senator gillibrand suggested would deteriorate command, order, and perhaps damage the able of commanders to take control of their unit. certainly a lot of excitement around that proposal given recent reports of how many incidents of unwanted sexual assault and rape go on in the military each year. >> the defense bill easing restrictions on transferring gitmo detainees overseas. how much closer does that bring us to the president's 2008 campaign, his promise to close gitmo? >> a tiny bit. the president was careful to acknowledge that congress has eased a little bit the restrictions, but there are two key limitations. first, it only allows for repatriation of detainees to their home countries, which is a challenge, especially yemen is home to many detainees and isn't friendly towards that. second, it won't allow detainees to be transferred to the u.s., was what president obama really wants, so that the suspected terrorists can be tried it in u.s. courts. >>
that is something that the pentagon does not support, defense secretary chuck hagel, other top officials suggested to make the change senator gillibrand suggested would deteriorate command, order, and perhaps damage the able of commanders to take control of their unit. certainly a lot of excitement around that proposal given recent reports of how many incidents of unwanted sexual assault and rape go on in the military each year. >> the defense bill easing restrictions on transferring...
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. >> chuck hagel, the man tapped the to secede panetta at the pentagon, will face his first major hurdle today. the senate armed services committee will vote today on his nomination. senate majority leader harry reid is pressing for a full senate vote either tomorrow or thursday. [ female announcer ] are you really getting salon quality... or settling for wannabes? stop compromising! new vidal sassoon pro series. care and styling from the original salon genius, created to let you have it all at an affordable price. new vidal sassoon lets you say no to compromise and yes to very shiny... very silky... very sexy... very you. it's salon genius in a bottle! now in your store. new vidal sassoon pro series. salon genius. brilliantly priced. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, they help save you up to thousands in out-of-pocket costs. call today to request a
. >> chuck hagel, the man tapped the to secede panetta at the pentagon, will face his first major hurdle today. the senate armed services committee will vote today on his nomination. senate majority leader harry reid is pressing for a full senate vote either tomorrow or thursday. [ female announcer ] are you really getting salon quality... or settling for wannabes? stop compromising! new vidal sassoon pro series. care and styling from the original salon genius, created to let you have it...